Black Friday! Are you shopping? Or are you cutting back?

Well this year I will not be shopping like I have in years past since I have been laid off since July. I will not have the extra spending money to do the Black Friday shopping this year. I will just have to sit this one out.

I plan on shopping as I've shopped the past couple of years on Black Friday. However, I'm watching the ads as they are leaked online and I have yet to see anything that is relatively eye catching. So, I guess if I don't see much of anything then I'll probably stay at home and do some shopping online. If I see something that looks good I may venture out to check out the sales but no promises.

I stay away from retail stores of that day but I do find that the grocery stores are pretty empty on that day. The traffic around the retail stores is bumper to bumper. I have worked in retail before and remember how bad the parking was. Our store was nit that busy but we shared the lot with many oter stores one of which was Wal Mart. I would look outside and actually see people fighting over shopping carts and parking spaces.